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Originally posted by LatinaAlumna
They also assumed she had an affluent upbringing, when in fact, she was from a blue-collar family. I always thought it convenient that these facts were ignored. But as we all already know, what value would the media see in a story about the murder of a woman of color from a blue-collar background? Happens everday, but doesn't make the news. I think the fact that she was pretty, and the media's choice to "pass" her as white, kept the story alive and well.
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Very good points. I always thought she looked Latina from the pics they showed of her.
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Originally posted by 33girl
I'm sorry, but this is a ridiculous statement. They're called Amber Alerts and Megan's Law for a reason, yes - because the people who pushed for them and got them put into law did so because of Amber Hagerman and Megan Kanka. These were two real little girls, not names picked at random.
I don't like to hear any singer, black or white - and both races do it, and I don't mean just Eminem - refer to women in degrading terms. This isn't just a black issue IMO.
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I understand re: Amber Alerts and Megan's Law. However, there are Black kids taken all the time and A LOT of times, there is NO mention in the media. There was a Black woman missing in Spartanburg (up the street from me) for MONTHS and I did not hear anything about it until Tom Joyner reported it almost 2 months after she was missing. Black people are the INVISIBLE PEOPLE in the media, by and large, unless it relates to the negative side.
Re: Music and the disparaging slurs, when it happens to a white woman, there is a large outcry and protests and the whole nine. Black women however dance to it, sing to it, but we never mobilize to challenge those lyrics. When we do, we are told that not all Black women are THOSE WORDS, etc. etc.
Hadji asked:
(1) When are we as a community going to acknowledge
this hatred?
I acknowledge it all the time. As a community, the acknowledgement is there but the ACTION is NOT.
(2) What are we as individuals and as communities
going to do to stop this hatred?
The cessation of hatred would require a lot of change . More than what most folks are willing to undertake. Change needs to begin at home first.